What a busy first week back from Winter Break! We have started into our new concept of "Interactions between the Earth and Sky" through our study of weather and geography. Also, we have started to learn/reinforce math skills with temperature and time, as we will need these skills to do accurate weather reporting. During this study, I am building on the students' current experiences with the topics as we create webs and do observational drawing and writing. Yesterday, I introduced the concept and immediately the students shouted out "rain, hail, snow, etc." I know they understand the different types of weather here in the Northwest, and through study groups, I hope to examine other types of weather patterns and how they occur, what instruments are used to observe and predict weather, and how weather reports are communicated to others.
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| The beginnings of our weather web (sorry, I should have used a darker pen) |
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| LR and GH are interacting with this street map |
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| Today's math lesson: Estimating how many of these things they can do in 1 minute. |
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CW, VK and CH studying a topographical map
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